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Number of infection is a number with a very high inaccuracy. Could be 20x bigger. On the other hand, number of deaths is much more accurate.

so are deaths, not everybody who dies is tested

it is only the people who are suspected of dying from COVID 19 are tested, the other are not so you do not have a reliable figure

its hard to predict what will happen when the data is not reliable, I expected to see infections to drop in Italy, from the measures introduced weeks ago. a couple of days of lower death figures is not enough

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Chomsky and corona- if you have twenty minutes or so. Not a superficial conspiracy theory, by the way!

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I disagree with his analysis. To pick only one small aspect: He claims the unavailablitiy of vaccines against corona is a market failure. But he forgets that without a free market economy the virus couldn´t even have been sequenced nor would there be the technology available to develop a vaccine within reasonable time (because a communist economy wouldn´t have provided for the technology necessary). He sounds pretty clueless on that. Developing a vaccine usually takes many years- if it can be found within less than 1.5 years (what experts say is what we can hope for) that´s already a huge benefit of having free market economy.

Has nothing to do with Coronavirus but it seems the topic is basically a catch all again until it isn't. Why not put this on the Trump thread or Politics XYZ?

Delivery of medical equipment and medicine to Iran were not outlawed by the sanctions, but they needed to go through special payment mechanisms so that other non-medical transactions could not be slipped in.

The EU could have negotiated a pull back of Iranian support for Hezbollah in south Lebanon, pull back of support for multiple proxies in Iraq and Yemen, and cessation of IRGC drug dealing but folded instead.

Iranians should get access to medicine and medical supplies, but the government is cynically using this wedge to get access to the international payments system to ease sanctions for other things.

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Just check the news. He deployed the US Navy several days ago and they are now close to Venezuela waters. And yesterday there were sightings of US troops in Colombia close to the border with Venezuela.

Not sure if the thing is real or he is just making some smokescreen.

Has nothing to do with Coronavirus but it seems the topic is basically a catch all again until it isn't. Why not put this on the Trump thread or Politics XYZ?

If you are from S. America, it should be quite clear that whether now or later, this is the end game.

Germany took advantage of the coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia by signing a Lithium deal two weeks after that coup, so maybe there is an upside for Germany.

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Trump is the shiny object that keeps Europeans distracted from their own governments' missteps. The CureVac story was leaked an hour after the Federal Reserve bailed out the European banking system (again).

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Trump is the shiny object that keeps Europeans distracted from their own governments' missteps. The CureVac story was leaked an hour after the Federal Reserve bailed out the European banking system (again).

Now be completely honest. That article says ONE official backtracked from his comments, not that the German government retracted.

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Somebody is particularly touchy about mentions of Trump's utter incompetence, petulance and dangerous ignorance. Even Johnson realised earlier that he couldn't gaslight a virus.

This poster wants all talk of Trump's handling of this crisis to be quarantined in the Trump thread.

The nightly circus in the WH where Trump denies ALL responsibility for the way things have turned out in the country he is in charge of is a sick joke. Journalists posing serious questions of the President's behaviour are ridiculed. He's a wanker. But he's your wanker.

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For you and any other Irish citizens or people with Irish heritage, I would like to publicly apologize for the remarks i made which may have exploited a well known health/lifestyle choice/problem in Ireland. Even if you made indefensible and tasteless remarks about the opioid crisis in the US, there is no excuse to stoop to your level.

By the way, if whatever that thing i referred to does not explain 7 posts of ranting in a row and constant stream of anti-American vitriol, then unfortunately, it would seem that you have some very serious issues which are quite permanent and enduring and not a matter of whatever you might be metabolizing.